Thanks for that.
after i posted i started thinking some more. fired up the good old stellarium
As i am very new to all this i assume the moon would be something easy to align with
so hypothetically, lets go back to 6am today Bundy time
if i found the SCP - Set the latitude at 24 degrees for bundaberg
- find magnetic south and adjusted for magnetic deviation (approx 10 degrees east)
- this would give me a Declination of 90 degrees.
if i then move the DEC 83 degrees west being that the moon is at -7 degrees.
Should i then be able to rotate the RA and in that axis somewhere find the moon. and when i do knowing that it is at a RA of 12H30M adjust this dial to that time.
I hope that sort of makes sense. I am only very new at this and am still trying to get my head around it all.
thank you for your help